Girl Nyun

Soldiers are distributing weapons to willing civilians. What if cameras were also given to them? It would create a film that would not only tell the story of war but would be one of those who make war. At a time when napalm was raining down on Vietnam, Nhat Minh Dang was filming a real war film/warring film. The biggest surprise is that it's not a standard sentimental-patriotic-pathos-shootout-explosion war film as one would expect, but a rather intimate story about people. Of course, this can be explained by the lack of money for big action scenes. A large part of the film takes place in several rooms or military headquarters (ergo studio...), but that's not the reason. According to what I've read about the director, it's obviously intentional. We can only applaud that Nhat Minh Dang was not afraid to make a subjective film about a woman at a time when city ruins did not need to be arranged in film studios, when the sound of an aircraft was not obtained by sound engineers, but simply by opening a window and recording the roaring of a B-52… (17.05.2014)